CVE record · CVE-2024-2905

Rpm-ostree: world-readable /etc/shadow file

CVSS 6.2 MediumEPSS 0.0033 · 25th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 25 Apr 2024, 17:44 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: rpm-ostree https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree	affected 1.2024.4 Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2025.5-1.el10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2024.3-3.el9_4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2023.3-2.el9_2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-2905
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-732
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Broken access control
Published: 25 Apr 2024
Updated: 6 Nov 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.2	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0033, the 25th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Apr 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:4872 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3401 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3823 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2905 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271585 issue-trackingredhat
github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/security/advisories/GHSA-2m76-cwhg-7wv6

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